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American Histories
John Edgar Wideman · Scribner
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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In a new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman - the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life - explores subjects from the historical to the imagined, with a cast of fictional and real-life characters as diverse as Frederick Douglass, Jean Michael Basquiat, and his own family.John... |
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The Italian Teacher
Tom Rachman · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"The Italian Teacher is a marvel--an entertaining, heartbreaking novel about art, family, loyalty, and authenticity. Tom Rachman is an enormously talented writer--this book is alive, from the first page to the last." Tom Perrotta, bestselling author of Mrs. FletcherA masterful... |
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Trenton Makes: A Novel
Tadzio Koelb · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid, brutal, razor-sharp debut about a woman who carves out her share of the American Dream by living as a man1946: At the apogee of the American Century, the confidence inspired by victory in World War II has spawned a culture of suffocating conformity in thrall to the cult of masculine... |
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Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories
Christine Schutt · Grove Press
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
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"Pure Hollywood is pure gold." -- Ottessa MoshfeghThe sensational new story collection from one of our sharpest, most original, and daringly cinematic stylists, National Book Award finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt. In one eponymous novella and ten stories, Pure... |
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The Parking Lot Attendant: A Novel
Nafkote Tamirat · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the worldA haunting story of fatherhood, national identity, and what it means to be an immigrant in America today,... |
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The Neighbors
Hannah Mary McKinnon · MIRA
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
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Abby looks forward to meeting the family who just moved in across the street - until she realizes they're the one couple who could expose her deepest secretsAfter a night of fun back in 1992, Abby is responsible for a car crash that kills her beloved brother. It's a mistake she can never... |
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Go: A Coming of Age Novel
KAZUKI KANESHIRO · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
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Two young lovers ... one little secret.As a Korean student in a Japanese high school, Sugihara has had to defend himself against all kinds of bullies. But nothing could have prepared him for the heartache he feels when he falls hopelessly in love with a Japanese girl named Sakurai. Immersed... |
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Empty Set
Vero?nica Gerber Bicecci · Coffee House Press
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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"Verónica Gerber writes with a luminous intimacy; her novel is clever, vibrant, moving, profoundly original. Reading it made me feel as if the world had been rebuilt." - Francisco Goldman"From the very beginning, Verónica Gerber set out to write a novel that would end up at a loss... |
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The Italian Party: A Novel
CHRISTINA LYNCH · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny page-turner about "innocent" Americans abroad in 1950s Siena"Imagine Beautiful Ruins plus horses; Toujours Provence with spies, a mystery and sex. The Italian Party is a fizzy, page-turning delight that... |
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Alternate Side: A Novel
Anna Quindlen · Random House
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood - and a seemingly happy marriage - are exposed by an unexpected act of violence in this provocative new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miller's Valley and Still Life with Bread Crumbs. Some days Nora Nolan thinks that... |
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